Posted on 12/03/2024 4:30:09 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin will reject Donald Trump's proposed peace plan and would only end the conflict in Ukraine if he gives him huge concessions, a hardliner close to the Kremlin has warned.
Russian tycoon Konstantin Malofeyev, who is sanctioned by the West, slammed Trump's recently picked envoy Keith Kellogg and his proposals on how to end the conflict with Kyiv.
'Kellogg comes to Moscow with his plan, we take it and then tell him to screw himself, because we don't like any of it. That'd be the whole negotiation,' Malofeyev said bluntly in an interview from a luxury Dubai resort.
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Malofeyev has responded by presenting a long list of demands which go beyond Putin's publicly-stated conditions for a ceasefire, which include Kyiv ceding four frontline regions to Russia and agreeing to never join NATO.
The businessman, who has strong influence but no official position in the Kremlin, told the FT that Trump would only have a chance of ending the conflict if he backtracked on the decision to allow Kyiv to use ATACMS long-range missiles on Russian territory.
He warned that the move had left the world 'on the brink of nuclear war', and said that if the US failed to roll back its support for Ukraine, Moscow could launch a tactical nuclear weapon.
'There will be a radiation zone nobody will ever go into in our lifetime,' he threatened. 'And the war will be over.'
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Okay except for 11, and I’d add Russia has to pay Ukraine’s rebuilding costs and Ukraine can join the EU.
Its going to be a complex peace talk and one that Trump will relish. In the end no one will be happy—but the war will stop and things rebuilt. Peace treaty by April—I predict. Signing in Minsk with Trump, Putin, Zelensky’s successor present, along with the new President of France and Nigel Farage of UK. But, war will still flair in the Middle East
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